Rocket-Battered Israelis Protest Netanyahu over Hamas Truce

Israelis protest against a recent cease fire with the Hamas movement, in the coastal city
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The Times of Israel reports: Hundreds of residents from southern communities, which were battered by recent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, protested in Tel Aviv on Thursday against a truce reached with the Hamas terror group and called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.

Demonstrators scuffled with police as they blocked roads at the city’s Azrieli Junction outside the Kirya military base, which also houses the Defense Ministry.

It followed two days of protests in which southern residents burned tires and blocked the entrances to cities battered by Gaza rocket fire in protest of the ceasefire, which they say has left Hamas poised to renew attacks at will.

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